Category: Blue things
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Refreshing my bathroom
It has been about a month since we moved to our new home. It feels like a refreshing retreat! We sit out on the deck in the morning, drinking coffee, and enjoying the trees and the sound of birds and the fresh air. I feel so blessed. I wanted to extend that retreat feeling into…
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Tutorial: Painting Birkenstocks with Shiva Paintstiks
I still haven’t been doing any quilting, but I’ve been kept busy with a lot of other creative things! Last year, of course, I was busy collaborating with my daughter. She wrote a book called A Mommas Heart: Comfort for Loss Moms. It is a book for mothers who have lost an infant during a…
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Review of 2014
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I can’t believe it is already the end of 2014! This has been a busy, eventful year for our family. Being “Mimi” means a lot of quilt making gets put on hold temporarily so I can focus completely on little Hazel, but I expect in the coming year things should start balancing out more. Here…
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Finally — curtains!
There are some things I get done very quickly. Other things…not so much. This is a project of the latter kind! I haven’t been doing much quilting lately, but I wanted to do some kind of sewing. Thursday I woke up and immediately thought, “I should sew curtains for my living room.” Why did that…
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Altered shoes
In 2011, I used Shiva Paintstiks to color my boring beige Birkenstocks a fabulous iridescent blue. I loved those sandals, but they were already four years old when I painted them the first time. Last summer I realized that I might need to eventually replace them. During the winter, I found a pair of deeply…
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Tupperware in my studio: part 7
I saved this one for Valentine’s Day because I ❤ my Modular Mates! Let me just say up front that I think they are the best line Tupperware ever invented; followed closely by their Square Rounds. Sorry, there can be no debate. Modular Mates are the whole reason I started selling Tupperware to begin with.…
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Tupperware in my studio: part 6
It’s a gimmick, I admit. These little gadgets are the kind of things your Tupperware representative gives away as prizes at Tupperware parties. These are little Tupperware pencil sharpeners, made to look like one of their line of tumblers. I could have found something similar at a local store, and it may have been cheaper,…
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Tupperware in my studio: part 5
When I bought this little piece of Tupperware, it was described as a business card holder. (I’ve also seen them described as recipe card holders, which makes more sense since Tupperware mostly makes food-related items.) Sadly, I was disappointed that, at 4″ wide, it is a little too big to properly hold a 3-1/2″ business…
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Tupperware in my studio: part 4
I have always been drawn to little boxes and bags; maybe it’s because I enjoy organizing things. In any case, I can always find lots of uses for these little Tupperware clamshell boxes. I’m not sure, but they may have been called “Packables.” I like that the lid is permanently attached so I can’t lose…
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Tupperware in my studio: part 3
I love to use this piece of Tupperware whenever I have to pack up my stuff for a workshop that I am taking. I think it may have originally been called “Lunch ‘N Things.” The largest center section could fit a sandwich and the left hand section would probably fit a juice box. If you’re…